Sarnia Athletics Southwest Track and Field Club hosted a Great Lakes Junior Series Track and Field Meet on Tuesday with over 100 young athletes from Windsor, London, Woodstock, Chatham, St Thomas and Sarnia participating.

The meets are held for all youths taking part in each of the cities' Junior Development Summer Camps. Club volunteers and senior athletes handle the timing, measuring, scoring and supervision of the meet. Junior Coaches Laura Gill, Derek Drouin and Adrienne Payne of the Sarnia Club organized, scheduled and prepared their athletes for a great day of competition.

Some of the highlights for the Sarnia Club included first place finishes for Kyle Rundle in the senior boys 100m, Zach Taylor -Atom Boys 100m, Adien Okutinyang- Senior Girls 100m, Owen Dunn- Mite Boys High Jump and Melissa Bennett- Atom Girls 400m.

Second place finishes went to Emma Darrach- Mite Girls 100m and Ashley Bisson - Senior Girls Long Jump. Marlee Darrach had a 3rd place finish in the Atom Girls 1500m.

Taking home fourth place finishes were Mike Coleman- Senior Boys 1500m, Braydon Wilson-Tyke Boys 1500m, Hunter Kameka- Atom Girls 1500m, Kristen Hislop- Senior Girls 400m, Heather Baxter- Atom Girls Ball Throw.

Emily Regan placed 5th in the Senior Girls Ball Throw as did Courtney Tremain in the Tyke Girls Ball Throw. Tiana Wilson had a 6th place finish for the team in the Atom Girls 400m and Austin Wilcox also placed 6th in the Tyke Boys Long Jump.

Unfortunately, heavy rains washed out the final couple of events. Sarnia's athletes will take part in the next meet in St. Thomas next week.

(from Sarnia Sports)